The Weldon and Welding Family History Archive

It was a sad email, I was informed that the last of my dad's surviving sisters, Violet, died on June 18th, 2017 in residential care in L...

People see this blog and want information and contact me by email, others are reading the book and it triggers memories and make a real conn...

Barely a month after Remembrance Day and the following scan of a postcard arrived in my email. It is from my granduncle John (Jack) Welding ...

In my research of the family tree, I found out about my grandfather's brothers Richard and John and was proud, yet saddened of what happ...

In 1954, a year or so after my mum and dad's wedding, Mary, who had been maid of honor at their wedding, married a footballer called D...

I received the following email, while not linked directly to the family, it does no harm to include it here : Hi Dave, I came across yo...

Taking a break from construction work in Vancouver, Canada. Frank Weldon (Youngest Son of Joseph Welding and Rachel Hardman). Frank is sea...

This is a great family photo of Frank, taken in 1962. Photo provided by his daughter, Doris.

Extreme left is 'Chic' Gorry, real name Edith, Thomas's cousin, her mother was Nellie's sister Edith Overend (Thomas's ...

Thomas Welding (b. 1924) and Frances Mcardle (b. 1925) were married in the September quarter of 1945 at South Sefton Register Office, Liverp...

Another treasure from the family military heritage. Although there was a lot of creasing on the image, none went through critical areas so t...

I was born in 1957 and my dad, Arthur Weldon, had this van when we were nippers, he used to take us over to Ainsdale to the sand dunes, many...

I'll upload several family photographs now, taking a break from the Military theme. This photograph introduces the faces of three more...

Stanley Weldon. (b. August 1928) Served with the Loyal Regiment between 1946 and 1948. This photo was provided by John Welding (b. abt 19...

All this activity regarding military records made me realize that there are a couple of photographs of my dad that need to be uploaded to th...

I included those (so far) none related medal cards in the blog because at some point they will be of interest to someone out there in blogos...

The National Archives Medal Card, obtained when I downloaded the John Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21 Image Reference 16844.  I ...

The National Archives Medal Card, obtained when I downloaded the John Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21 Image Reference 16844.  I ...

The National Archives Medal Card, obtained when I downloaded the John Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21 Image Reference 16844.  Th...

The National Archives Medal Card, obtained when I downloaded the John Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21 Image Reference 16844.  Th...

The National Archives Medal Card, obtained when I downloaded the John Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21 Image Reference 16844.  Th...

The National Archives Card, obtained when I downloaded the Richard Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21. Image Reference 16845.  This...

The National Archives Card, obtained when I downloaded the Richard Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21, Image Reference 16845.  This...

The National Archives Card, obtained when I downloaded the Richard Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21, Image Reference 16845.  This...

The National Archives Card, obtained when I downloaded the Richard Welding card. Catalogue Reference WO/372/21, Image Reference 16845.  This...

This is the National Archives medal card for Richard Welding who died, defending his King and Country, on the 30th November, 1917 at the Bat...

If you want to see this, take a look at the London Gazette, 17th September 1917, Pages 9604 thru 9613. I have copied the header from page 9...

The West Lancashire Division was a formation of the Territorial Force. It was formed as a result of the reforms of the army carried out in 1...

I've discussed the family links to the Whiston pottery, mining, the "cables" and the brickworks and the following is a fantast...

1911 Census data. Address : 11 Hall Lane, Huyton Quarry, near Liverpool District : Prescot - Subdistrict : Prescot Enumeration district :...

The name game, I've discussed it before and my Weldon family firmly has documented roots with the Welding name, so today I have official...

When I was a kid, growing up in Liverpool and Whiston in the 1960s, I would occasionally ferret out the black book that was in the Welsh dre...

This is a photograph of John and Ellen on their wedding day. They married in West Derby, Liverpool, in the second quarter of 1921 John app...

I will link a new set of information with the last post, here is a very important photograph to the archive provided by Thomas Welding (John...

I've discussed my great-great grandfather, William Hardman (b. abt 1831) in this blog and his wife, Jane Barron (b. abt 1843). I track...

There is an interesting coincidence in the family history and it was highlighted by one of my real Aunties, and, with my research, is not un...

The travellers Frank Weldon (b. June 25th, 1906) and his wife Doris Byron (b. August 8th, 1909) returned from Canada in the 1970s to visit S...

I discussed Jane previously on the blog, here are a couple more photo's. I wanted to add these because I believe there may be some new ...

A page from a little book of my mum's shows expenses from October, 1965. It is a little time capsule of happy thoughts and links to anot...

I feel as though I forgot I had a grandmother on my mother's side of the family, the reason being that she died when I was three years ...

I've returned to a larger group picture of my mum and dad's wedding because I want to focus in on a couple of individuals and fill ...

This hourglass tree with a generation above and below shows the John Welding (b.1870) and Elizabeth Beesley (b.1871) household with four kno...

In the 1970s I would usually walk from my home in Pottery Lane, up Dragon Lane to the junction with Warrington Road, take a right, then a le...

The parents of Joseph Welding (b.1859) are James and Alice Welding. They are my great-great grandparents, or the simplified 2nd great-gran...

There is another popular church in the Weldon history and I will borrow some information from the Prescotian website. PRESCOT PARISH CHUR...

Alda Weldon born abt. September 1916 (birth record is for December period, 1916 in Prescot, Lancashire). Married Robert Lewis in 1938 at Pr...

Robert Lewis was born December 8th, 1913 in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The town of Sydney Mines grew up around the rich coal f...

A great picture of Stanley Weldon and Arthur Hill. There is no direct relationship besides the fact that Arthur Hill was the brother of T...

I was born in Liverpool and in 1957 we lived at 53 Botanic Road, time has not been kind to the old place and here is a very recent photograp...

A combination picture I created for a now defunct website, showing approximate locations of our house, the local pub, our shop and Clint Roa...

This old aerial photo shows Botanic Road on the right with Edge Lane running along the bottom from left to right. There is clearly quite a l...

In those days, Botanic Road wasn’t a busy road, not a main one. It was (and still is) a link between Wavertree Road and Edge Lane. We lived ...

John Edward Edwards (centre) or 'Jack" as he became known to family and friends went to School in central Liverpool. In 1919, at th...